Roy Mark attended Southeastern Louisiana University before beginning a career in the oil industry. In a career spanning three decades, he worked as a mud engineer, mud school instructor, oil well blowout prevention instructor, and drilling supervisor. Roy worked in locations around the world including North and South America, Europe, and Southeast Asia. He lived in Indonesia from 1988 until relocating to Chiang Mai, Thailand in 2001. Mr. Mark wrote technical manuals on Oil Well Blowout Prevention for two companies and had written numerous short stories. He published THE MARK FAMILY HISTORY in 2005, FIXIN' TO DIE RAG and THE TEXAN AND THE ICE-BOY in 2014, and LIVE BY CHANCE, LOVE BY CHOICE, KILL BY PROFESSION in 2017. Roy Mark is a member of MILITARY WRITERS SOCIETY OF AMERICA. Watch for his next book, BLACK AND BLUE coming in 2019.